Haiti >The Confederacy
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ICastFist@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Poor Haiti had to deal with a huge debt that France forced down on them. It took them over 100 years to pay that debt, thanks to high and compound interests
PugJesus@piefed.social 23 hours ago
The debt, on top of that, was marginal to France. A step above a rounding error to the French economy. It was purely punitive, not even a matter of selfish opportunism.